This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has been rediscovered and is now rising from its ancient resting place in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile on Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just spotted something in a hilly area of the Red Planet that you have to see; fortunately, the space agency has unveiled it all in stunning new images. And finally, this unusual object should have been “impossible” to create using Iron Age tools… so how did its ancient crafters make it?
Ready to dive deeper? Here’s a look at several of the top stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief…
- These Curious Ancient Greek Artifacts Have Extraterrestrial Origins—Why They Vanished 3000 Years Ago Remains a Mystery
- Mysterious Engravings on Rare 9,000-Year-Old Projectiles May Reveal a Forgotten Symbolic Tradition in Ancient Anatolia
- Forget Lasers—Researchers Just Created Quantum Entanglement Using Sunlight
- “Pluto Never Stops Surprising Us”: SwRI Scientists Find Evidence of Liquid Nitrogen on Pluto
- “One Origin of the Genetic Code, but Two Origins of Life”: Scientists Reveal the Ancient Evolutionary Split That Gave Rise to All Life on Earth
- Study Finds Nightmares Connected to PTSD are Reduced or Completely Eliminated by THC from Cannabis
- This ‘Ancient’ Spacecraft Keeps Defying Death—But How Much Longer Will Its Extended Mission Last?
- “Surpassing the Evolutionary Boundaries of Biological Photoreception”: Scientists Invent Eyeglasses That Let Wearers See the Infrared in Full Color
- An Ancient Egyptian Moon God Mystery Deepens with New Analysis Revealing Thoth’s Sacred Baboon Glowed Like Moonlight
- New Research Suggests Extraordinary Experiences Are More Common—and More Meaningful—Than Expected
- Antarctica’s Eerie Blood Falls Could Host a Thriving Colony of Million-Year-Old Microbes, Pointing to Evidence of a “Lost” Ocean
- Archaeologists Uncover 11,500-Year-Old Evidence That Could Rewrite the Origins of Ceramic Technology in Southwest Asia
- An Out-of-Control SpaceX Rocket May Have Struck the Moon with the Force of Three Tons of TNT—Here’s What We Know
- Could Humans Evolve Into a New Spacefaring Species? Scientists Explore the Future of Reproduction Beyond Earth
- Scientists Have Detected Antineutrinos, “the Most Elusive Particle in the Universe,” in an Inactive Nuclear Reactor